Really enjoying these band paintings. Perhaps you’re planning this and have mentioned already, but when you’ve painted all you plan to, it will be fun for us all to see them side-by-side in a virtual band… as a series. 🙂

Jen –
This is exactly our kitten! You did him more than justice with this and I thank you for sharing the process of how you went about it – and so please you thought to photo at various stages.
His name is “Little Kitty” (not too original, I know) and my son will be tickled to see this painting.
I wish I had not been absent for so long and not…[Read more]

What a nice idea, Alex. You should take this up with Martin. I bet he’d make a category for the uploads… I too find I am mesmerized by the sky of late. I’m always wishing I had my paints and a few extra minutes to capture the ever-changing brilliance above me!

So lovely and delicate – this clingfilm technique gives such an interesting effect. I almost feel like the flower needs more interest/detail now, imho… my eye keeps getting drawn to that fabulous background! I agree with Martin – the branches and green bud are superb.
There is a lovely hint of almost electric blue behind ant slightly to the…[Read more]

So lovely and delicate – this clingfilm technique give such an interesting effect. I almost feel like the flower needs more interest/detail now, imho… my eye keeps getting drawn to that fabulous background! I agree with Martin – the branches and green bud are superb.
There is a lovely hint of almost electric blue behind ant slightly to the…[Read more]

A nice feel to this, David. It has a real sense of height, giving a lovely shadowy feel down in this river valley – those warm tones in the upper reaches of the mountainsides do this I suppose. And what a lovely, subtle sky as well.

I’ve been away from the site for some time and recently went to a workshop, so thought I’d post what I did in it as a way of getting back to things here at PWC.
No great shakes, but the focus was on design elements and the importance of doing a preliminary value sketch. I have included the source image (super difficult, imho) and how I narrowed it…[Read more]

I’ve been away from the site for sometime and recently went to a workshop, so thought I’d post what I did in it as a way of getting back to things here at PWC.
No great shakes, but the focus was on design elements and the importance of doing a preliminary value sketch. I have included the source image (super difficult, imho) and how I narrowed it…[Read more]

Wow! Enjoy every aspect of this, Joe – the form of the boats (personal fav topic) and the weathered effect you gave their coloring especially. I very much appreciate your style. The water is exceptional.
Beautiful all around!

Wow! Enjoy every aspect of this, Joe – the form of the boats (personal fav topic) and the weathered effect you gave their coloring especially. I veer much appreciate your style. The water is exceptional.
Beautiful all around!

Really enjoy this, Brian. The somewhat distant hills with the warm and cool colors to them drew me right in and intrigued me! Then my eye bounced around taking in the many points of interest… a lot to see in this… and all so very pleasing!

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